Chronic, low-level (1.0 W/kg) exposure of mice prone to mammary cancer to 2450 MHz microwaves

Radiation Research

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 568-576

  Frei, Melvin R ^a   Jauchem, James R ^b   Dusch, Steven J ^a   Merritt, James H ^b   Berger, Rick E ^c   Stedham, Michael A ^d  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

^c Operational Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^d CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICROWAVES; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031739121     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579874     Document Type: Article

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